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Pathfinder Game 75 - 05/29/2026 - I Attack the Dark! Featured

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The first Wisp randomly picked Oakwood to attack.  It moved and hit for 12 points.  And then missed.  TerStegan entered his stance, moved and attacked the same one.  He hit due to flanking and did 23 damage.  Wisp two attacked Brisco and crit for 30 points.  (Briscoe still had damage from the last fight against the pseudo lich.)  And it hit again for another 14.  And then went dark (i.e. invisible).  Wisp three stepped to TerStegan and crit him for 33.  And then missed.  Clarisa could target the first one who was still visible.  She hit it with a 3 action Force Barrage for 42.  And that killed it.  The last Wisp took a cautious step and missed TerStegan.  And then went invisible as well.  Oakwood cast a Tree and moved to engage the one still invisible.  Briscoe delayed since Dave wasn’t online yet.

TerStegan moved to flank the visible one and crit for 43.  That made it Frightened 1 and persistent fire.  On his third action, second attack, he hit for 16 and killed it.  The second one was still standing next to Briscoe so it crit for 22 and dropped him.  It then moved to engage Clarisa in the hallway.  But it missed.  We could see its square but it was still invisible.  Clarisa needed to spend an action to Seek it in order to cast another Force Barrage.  She didn’t want to use it with 2 actions.  She used Tumble Through, rolled a 33 and moved into the room.  She then cast Revealing Light in a 10-foot burst.  It was now Concealed and Dazzled for a round.  And she managed to avoid friendly fire in the AOE.  The last one took a step to Clarisa and hit her for 18, besting the Dazzled flat check.  And then missed.  Oakwood stepped to Briscoe, did BFM for 20 and then hit with a fist for 7 big points.

TerStegan stepped and hit the Revealed one for 23.  And then missed.  Briscoe showed up and protested his lack of options.  He picked up his trident, stood up and did BFM on himself for 52.  The second one moved back into the room and continued to attack Clarisa.  That crit for only 26 and then missed.  Clarisa cast a Force Barrage on the sort of visible one and finished it off.  Oakwood stepped away from his tree and missed the 11 flat check twice.  TerStegan moved to it and rolled a 20 on the flat check and then crit with another nat 20.  That did 37 and Frightened 1 and on fire.  But still up.  And then missed.  Briscoe missed it twice and stepped back to the Tree.  It missed Clarisa and Tumbled Through her.  But TerStegan finished it off with an opportunity attack as it tried to flee. 

Oakwood did a round of healing herbs.  We waited 10 minutes and topped off Clarisa and TerStegan.  And then moved to the next door.  It was a short hallway filled with vegetable waste and many mushrooms and fungi. Briscoe managed to start a conversation with them.  He felt it was a slip hazard and not dangerous.  He asked if they were well fed and they were happy enough.  They said people rarely go through here but there was a stairway and a door on the far end.  He moved carefully and saw a circular stairway going up.  Maybe it was the blocked stairway.  He then searched for the hidden door.  Meanwhile, we moved some swamp water to the fungi.  The door had an indentation and we figured it needed an object we didn’t have yet.  He went up the stairs a bit.  We had been up and down those circular stairs enough to assume these are the ones from the level above that were blocked with rubble.  We went back to the hallway and to the unopened door to the south.  That was a big room with many doors.  There was a fire on the far side, smoking 3 eggs the size of a human head.  And some cultists chanting to them.  The nearest one noticed our entry and called out in a language we didn’t know.  The six Caligni Stalkers rolled initiative and turned to attack. 

TerStegan closed the door and cast Haste.  One of them cast a spell but we didn’t see it.  Clarisa moved down the list to last where she felt comfortable.  The door opened and a wave of darkness spilled out.  But it was overpowered by Briscoe’s Light spell since it was now scaled up to a 4th level cantrip.  It attacked TerStegan but missed.  Another one cast Obscuring Mist over the whole area.  Everyone was Concealed.  Briscoe argued that he was Stormborn and therefore immune to weather effects.  But that was too useful and rejected.  Briscoe gave TerStegan 10 temp hit points and missed with a trident.  One moved up and attacked TerStegan with a double strike.  Both hit for a total of 30 points.  And he made a trivial Fort save.  3 more of them did things we couldn’t see.  There was a real bottleneck at the door.  Oakwood cast his Sanguivolent Roots, getting TerStegan and 3 of them in the burst.  They took 12, 12 and 24 and TerStegan got 12 back.  Clarisa moved up so she could see some of the room.  She cast Revealing Light into the room.  One saved and one crit failed.

TerStegan did his stance and a Swipe on the two at the door.  He crit both but then it was pointed out that they were still hidden so missed both due to the Conceal.  (Thanks Dave.)  But then DG pointed out that Clarisa’s spell nullified that concealed and he did crit.  (Thanks Dave.)  They took 44 each plus another 5.  Both were killed.  He then hasted into the room.  One flanked TerStegan and missed twice.  Another moved and closed the door.  The room was now magically dark.  (It was the heightened version that negates Darkvision as well.)  Another moved.  Briscoe moved to the door and opened it.  His Light canceled the Darkness again.  He then bravely moved into the room to give flanking to TerStegan.  Their caster cast a non-manipulate spell.  It tried to counter Briscoe’s light spell and got the 26 it needed exactly.  And it was dark again.  (Brian was having problems with the overlapping areas and the map in general.)  The last guy moved to the doorway and did a double slice on flanked Briscoe.  One of those hit and made the flat check so 12 points.  He made the Fort save.  Oakwood sustained his Roots and did 20, 10, 10 and 5.  And healed TerStegan and Briscoe for 10.  He channeled elements and turned on his Nimbus.  And stepped into the darkness until he ran into Briscoe.  Clarisa couldn’t see into the room at all.  She held her action in hopes someone would nullify the darkness.

TerStegan was in the dark as well.  The ones next to him were hidden so a DC11 flat check.  So, he delayed as well.  One of them turned on Briscoe since he was the potential light source.  It hit once with a double strike.  That did 16 and he saved against the poison.  And then he was crit for 36.  One on TerStegan missed and hit for 11.  And missed.  Briscoe did BFM on himself, fearing attacks of opportunity on his next action.  That did 15.  And then cast Light and overpowered the Darkness again.  (They had no opportunity attacks.)  Clarisa reentered the order and cast Sure Strike and Flurry of Claws.  The first did 32.  The second attack also crit but missed the flat check.  She used a hero point and made it.  She did 23 to that one.  Sadly, the spell had no crit damage increase verbiage.  TerStegan also reentered.  We did a Swipe on the two below him.  He hit them and made both DC5 flat checks this time.  He did 17 to each.  He then attacked the flanked one above him and hit despite the -10 MAP.  He rolled 17 damage.  (We were really spreading the damage.)  The one to the south turned to flee.  TerStegan hit him with an OA and crit.  That did 24 but it was still up.  He ran and we heard some shouting.  Some more monsters rolled initiative including “Owb” and “Dulac”.  Owb moved into view and cast a spell.  Shadow Blast which was a line.  Briscoe missed a Will save and used a hero point.  That was now a crit save.  All the players had a crit success for no damage.  However, the two monsters failed for 25, dropping both.  But wait.  There’s more.  Brian had forgotten this part.  We had to make another Reflex save from them exploding.  That was 9 fire but Oakwood and Briscoe were in the Nimbus for 1 instead.  Likewise, Clarisa Ate Fire for none.  And the next one blew as well.  Various saves and resistances were had.  Oakwood sustained the Roots although only one was in the area.  That did 28 on a crit miss.  That healed all but distant Clarisa 14.  But it dropped and blew up.  TerStegan took another 8.  Oakwood then moved in front of TerStegan and crit Owb for 21 from range.    

We stopped there.  It looks to be another rolling fight without a short rest in between.

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